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IiEROY M. STREETER, OF'OSHK'OSH, WISCONSIN.

Letters Patent No. 104,227, lated June 14, 1870.

IMRovnn CLOTHES-nalen.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom it may concern:

rangement of parts of'l a. clothes-rack, as will herein# after be more fully specified.

Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, are elevations of the rack, with the arms variously adjusted.

Figure 5 is a perspective View.

Figure is a vertical section.

Fig. l shows the position of the arms, suitable for attaching a clothes-line for ordinary use.

, 'Fig 2 shows the position 'of the arms when the hooks J J are to be used.

Fig. 3 shows the position of the arms suitable for use in drying and dressingladies skirt-s.

` Fig. 4 shows the arms folded, in which position the apparatus may be used as an ordinary reel.

A A are the arms, attached by a pivot joint at the end H to the head-block D, and connected by the braces B B to the sliding block C, the braces being attached by a pivot joint to the arm at K, and to the sliding block at L.

F is the stayblock,connected to the head-block D by the stay-rods E, passing loosely through the s1id ing block C. The oliice ofthe stay-rods is to keep the head-block I) and sliding block C in position relap tive to each other.

I is a shoulder on the sha-ft Glupou which the l 1eadblock rests.

0 is a pin through the shaft,above the head-block.

The slidingr block G is operated by means of a cord, b, and pulley a', and is held in any position by fastening the cord t the`pin, the cord being attached to the sliding block, and the pulley `and pin to the headblock. J J are hooks for hanging articles on when. the arms are raised, as in gf2.

Having thus 'described my invention,

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to securel by Letters Patent, is

1. The combina-tion of the vertical shaft G, stay" rods E, head-block D, stay-block F, sliding disk (l, arms A, braces B, pulley a, and belt or cord b,-con structed and arranged toope-rate substantially as described, for the purpose hereinbefore specified.

2. The stay-rods E, in combina-tion with the-headblock D, stay-block F, and vsliding block C, constructed as specified, for thc purpose stated.

LEROY M. STREETER.

Witnesses.:

G. PALMER, WM. H. Danis. 

